If you want another brilliant article on women spies have a read of @jimoneillnyw.bsky.social work on their influence in the Nine Years War in Ireland - a war that bankrupted Elizabeth. This was one of the most popular articles I used in my course on the Tudor state muse.jhu.edu/article/8386...

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🧵 Fighter, rapist & deluded candidate for President of Ireland has more trouble coming. Not only did his pub get burnt out this week, the woman he raped is coming for him with a new court case! [1]

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#OTD in 1941, Castlerock in Northern Ireland. Men from 5 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry scrambling up cliffs during "toughening up" exercises. #WW2 #HISTORY

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Today's lemonade is a pale imitation of what the English drank in the Caribbean in the C17th: 'English Lemonade is made with Canary wine, in which we put sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, & a little essence of amber. The drink is as delicious as it is dangerous.'

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